Month: May 2019

“Scary people,” Jade repeated Morn’s warning “Yes.”“What do they look like?” Acantha asked, ignoring Jades grin.“They look scary.”“Can you be a bit more specific please?”“Stop running and see for yourself.”Acantha made a face, which was hard to see under the shadow cloak provided by Turnfeather. The three of them rode their squig, who had to jump with a certain cooperation so that they would be able to stay close together without bumping into each other. The sun was up and the shadow could not entirely hide them. However, the three of them were in no way recognizable as people on…

“Are they all like this?” Acantha asked Jade. They were looking down at a corpse of an elf woman. Her face was twisted into a scream of horror. It had been roughly three days since they had passed the corpse pinned to the tree. Since then, they had encountered a handful of villages, but never survivors. “The whole village.”“You think a daemon did this?” Acantha looked at her friend, who stared down at the woman lying on the floor. “We should keep moving. Where’s Morn?”“I saw him disappear behind that house,” Acantha pointed. The two of them walked through the…

“Morn!” Acantha stood over her sleeping friend and shouted right in their face. “Have you tried slapping him?” Jade suggested with a meek grin. “You think this is funny? It has been hours after dawn, we don’t have time for this.”Jade’s smile disappeared and she nodded. “Want me to try and whisper to ’em?” She proposed to Acantha. “If shouting doesn’t work–““No, I mean, talk into his mind. Instead of his ears. I dunno–“Acantha made a gesture of reluctant acceptance. Jade turned to Morn and then back to Acantha. “I told him to wake up,” Jade shrugged, “I don’t know…

Acantha breathed heavily, her heart still beating in her throat. She stared at the pup, talking to it in her spawn tongue. “Are you ok?” She asked him. “No, I am not, I am very much in pain, do you see these cuts on me, girl.” The Wolfkin cub looked beaten up indeed. He was lucky that Acantha and her friends had arrived when they did, though in retrospect Acantha was not sure if he was worth the effort of getting nearly killed by an army of Ghar. “Did you summon that other Wolfkin?”“I sent out a challenge, yes, to…

They ran through the forest. Acantha carried the Wolfkin cub in her arms and followed Jade, hoping she had an escape plan. They had rescued the kid, but at what cost? Acantha heard something in the trees. A loud thump against a tree trunk. Looking up over her shoulder, she saw that one of the Ghar had gained on them. From the corner of her eye she noticed she passed someone by. “Jade!” She shouted at her friend. “We can’t outrun them,” came the elf’s response.“But you said we can’t beat them either.”Morn had also stopped running, when Acantha saw…